Call For Surplus School Supplies To Be Donated

A retired teacher from Bute, who has enlisted the support of 22 transport companies in diverting unwanted school resources from landfill to the developing world, is appealing to Scottish local authorities for formal recognition.David Hanschell set up Surplus Educational Supplies Foundation SESF as a charitable company last year, three years after launching the project in response to the hurricane disaster in Grenada in his native Caribbean. Since then he has shipped five container loads of furniture and other resources to the island, and last month the filling of a sixth container was completed in Livingston. Hanschell is now ready to extend the reach of the project to other Caribbean islands and Sierra Leone.